The Potemkin mutiny, Richard Hough
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The Potemkin mutiny, Richard Hough
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eng
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non fiction
Main title
The Potemkin mutiny
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34553447
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Richard Hough
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Bluejacket books
Summary
Hailed as an important contribution both to history and to sea literature when first published in 1961, The Potemkin Mutiny gives a dramatic blow-by-blow account of the June 1905 mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin. The revolt, immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein's famous motion picture, was considered by the Soviets a glorious moment in the people's fight against a tyrannical czarist government. Richard Hough chronicles events from the first rumblings of discontent to the closing scenes of the uprising that nearly brought about the Russian Revolution twelve years early. His balanced account depicts the protagonists not as symbols but as human beings reacting under powerful tensions
Table of contents
A matter of maggots -- A city in revolt -- The Tsar declares war -- The martyr on the quay -- The burial -- The bombardment -- The engagement off Odessa -- An undecided crew -- Black Sea cruise -- The emigrants
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